Word: coded
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McGuire claims to uphold "rational argument," yet his polemics rely on incendiary rhetoric and false evidence coupled with a refusal to engage the larger issues he attacks. "What is `empowerment," he asks, "but a code word for...the celebration of `liberated mothers' and their bastard children...
...most vehement attackers deny that the "Take Back the Night" rally is a political event." But what is "empowerment," but a code-word for abortion rights, universalized day care and the celebration of "liberated mothers" and their bastard children? Even taken at its simplest meaning--that of helping women to feel more secure about themselves--"empowerment" has nothing to do with actually preventing women from being beaten or raped...
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, a committeemember, endorsed the guidelines in a writtenstatement, in which he called the rules a "narrowspeech code" that would prevent other bars to freespeech...
...whole 1968 campaign. Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey dared not repudiate Johnson's doomed Vietnam policy and talked instead about "the politics of joy." Nixon, who had agreed with Johnson's escalation of the war and hoped to court segregationist votes in the South, spoke mainly in code words about "peace with honor" in Vietnam and "law and order" at home. In a year of assassinations and ghetto riots, Nixon sounded reassuring, or enough so to defeat Humphrey and the war-torn Democrats. But it was close: 43.4% for Nixon, 42.7% for Humphrey, 13.5% for George Wallace...
Recent sting operations have slowed the Silicon Valley heists a bit but have shown few signs of stopping them. In campaigns with code names such as "Operation Gray Chip" and "Winter Sting," law-enforcement officers rounded up 43 suspects in January, including 13 who were caught while trying to steal more than $1 million worth of computer parts from an electronics warehouse. Officers seized a total of $2 million worth of chips and other computer equipment, together with nylon masks, duct tape, ropes, gloves, walkie-talkies and five loaded guns. But while 20 suspects were swiftly tried and convicted, most...